GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 November 1949, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Call To Fire The Wanganui Fire Brigade responded to a call at 1.37 p.m. yester.day to a rubbish fire at Hillside Terrace, St. John’s Hill The outbreak was quelled before serious damage was done. Breaking-up Ceremony The annual breaking-up ceremony of the Wanganui Technical College will be held in the Opera House on Tuesday, December 13. The speaker will be Mr W. A. Armour, former principal of the, college, the Napier Boys’ High School and Wellington Boys’ College. Cricket Presentation At a dinner held in the Rutland Hotel last night, the guest of honour, Mr H. B. Cave, presented to Mr R. I. Sewell, chairman of the management committee of the Wanganui Cricket; Association, an autographed cricket bat. and photo of members of the 1949 Now Zealand cricket team in England. Australian Golf Team. The possibility of an Australian golf team making a tour of New Zealand next season was mentioned by the president at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Golf Association in Wellington yesterday. An invitation has been sent to Australia but so far no reply has been received. If the team comes to the Dominion, Christ church clubs hope to be hosts for a test match as part of the Canterbury centennial celebrations. (P.A.) Good Fielding. A tribute to the fielding of the New Zealand cricket team on its tour of England this year was paid at Scarborough by Emmott Robinson, the famous Yorkshire cricketer, said Mr. H. B. Cave at a dinner given in his honour at the Rutland Hotel last night. “Emmett Robinson said the fielding was amongst the finest he had ever seen in his life. This coming from a Yorkshireman is something to be proud of,” said Mr. Cave. Motor Mechanic Certificates Three Wanganui motor mechanics have been successful in passing the trade certificate examination held on October 8 and will be advised by the Motor Trade Certification Board ot the date from which their registration will count. They are R. E. Lowen, R. J. Mathie and R. H. Randal. Untrained Brides. Some prospective brides did not know how to cook potatoes while there were others who did not know how to boil water without burning the edges, said Mr. J. Ward (Ngaio) speaking in a debate on the attitude of the Church to divorce at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Timaru. He considered that certificates of domestic competence should be obtaiied by wives before they married. Early Voters Although the election is nearly a fortnight away some 350 New inlanders will have an opportunity of going to the polls tomorrow afternoon. They are people leaving for Sydney at 3 p.m. in the liner Monowai on which a special ballot will bo conducted before sailing time. Under arrangements made by the special returning officer for overseas ships, passengers and eligible members of the crew who come from electorates scattered throughout the country will indicate their preference under the postal vote system. Booths will be set up in one of the ship’s public rooms. Donations to College Ten volumes of “Modern Engineering Practice ’ have been donated to the engineering course reference library by Mr W. G. Simpson, reported the principal (Mr J. Dash) at last night’s meeting of the Board of Managers of the Wanganui Technical College. Mr Dash added that Mr K. E. Gudsell had presented to the college a South African pattern Rugby football bearing the autographs of the South African and New Zealand players in all four Test matches. Golf Championships. Suggestions that the amateur Held for the New Zealand golf championships should be restricted to 128 players thus waiving the qualifying rounds and the splitting of the open field to allow for the acceptance of all entries were made at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Golf Association. Both received some support but were lost on the vote, the majority favouring the continuation of the programme as at Hastings at the last championships. A proposal to limit the field to a handicap of two was rejected in favour of one permitting the entry of men on a handicap of three. <P.A.). Old Cricket Rep. Present at the dinner given in honour of the New Zealand cricketer, Mr H. B. Cave, at the Rutland Hotel last night, was Mr Norman Cave, a former Wanganui representative cricketer, who celebrated his 80th. birthday recently. Mr. G. S. Gordon, who proposed one of the toasts, said that Mr. Norman Cave was a grand batsman who could stay in a long time to save his team. He mentioned that Mr. Cave was a member of the old Victoria Club team which won the Wanganui championship on many occasions. It was said at the dinner by a cricket follower that Mr. Cave once batted six hours for two runs to save his side from defeat. Treatment Of Milk Despite an increase in milk sales of , 2100 gallons during October, the sur-j plus passed on to a dairy factory was almost 50,000 gallons, the manager (Mr. S. V. Howells) reported to yesterday’s meeting of the directors of the Wanganui Milk Treatment Corporation. Contracting town supplies were making so much milk available that an acute shortage of cans had developed. Suppliers produced 133,093 gallons for the treating house in October, compared with 106,698 gallons in September and vendors took 70,835 gallons, compared with 66,696 j gallons during the previous month. He said that extra truck rounds to I return cans to suppliers between I milkings had been necessary and would probably be necessary this month and in December.